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10. Registering a pedigree at the College of Arms |
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| The College of Arms is the official repository for the family trees of families of English and Welsh descent. Pedigrees are regularly entered into the official registers of the College. This may be to establish a right to arms by descent or it may simply be for the satisfaction of knowing that the pedigree of one's family is recorded at the College of Arms. | |||||||
The heralds warrant to the Sheriffs of Worcester
requiring them to summon the gentry |
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| To have a pedigree placed on official record at the
College of Arms it is necessary to engage the services of an officer of
arms who will draft the pedigree in the required format and advise on
the documentary evidences needed to support it. He will then submit it
to the Chapter of the College which will appoint two other officers of
arms to examine it with the evidences. The two examiners may strike out
parts of it if they believe not satisfactorily proved, or call for
additional research to be undertaken. Once the examination is complete
the pedigree is scrivened into the pedigree registers and becomes part
of the official records of the College. The most recent generations of a pedigree, as far back as the grandparents of the person attesting, can be accepted without documentary evidence. But exact details have to be given of dates and places of birth, marriage, divorce, and death, and of any adoption of a child. |
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